th MMMaaassssssaaaccchhhuuussseeettttttsss IIInnnssstttiiitttuuuttteee ooofff TTTeeeccchhhnnnooolllooogggyyy The October 24 event will begin a new series of "Conversations About Music" by Dr. Ludmilla Leibman presented in collaboration with the Educational Bridge Project. This season the series will take place in the MIT Chapel, a beautiful creation of Eero Saarinen, and will focus on the nature of musical language.

During the first "Conversation" Dr. Leibman will explain to the audience how to listen to a piece of music and how to understand its language. The musical examples for the DDoo YYoouu SSppeeaakk MMuussiicc?? "Conversation" will range from the traditional music by A conversation on the nature of musical language Bach, Brahms and Prokofiev played by a young Russian- born pianist Anton Faynberg to very new electronic compositions played on an instrument called "samchillian" Musical performance by by its inventor, Leon Gruenbaum who will be making one of his many appearances in Boston from New York. Anton Faynberg (piano) and Leon Gruenbaum (samchillian)

Commentary by

Ludmilla Leibman

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MIT Russian Club Classical Music Concert Series 2010-2011 [email protected] Anton Faynberg is a Boston-based pianist, accompanist, Leon Gruenbaum was born in Brookline, MA, and studied and pedagogue. Born in Russia, Anton Faynberg's early classical piano and clarinet at the New musical education was characterized by a rapid progression Conservatory prep school, at Berklee, and then in technical skills and musicality. While studying with graduated with a degree in Mathematics from Harvard Margarita Gurevich and Tatyana Yamplosky, Anton University. He currently resides in . Faynberg participated in numerous music festivals and Mr. Gruenbaum conceived of the world's first relativistic competitions. Anton graduated from Oberlin Conservatory music keyboard, a patented MIDI controller called the under Sanford Margolis, and continues to perform Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeeeee. He has recorded extensively, presenting a broad repertoire, which included a and performed internationally with this instrument with his program of tangos for two pianos by Piazzolla in 2009. Mr. own group "Genes and Machines", as well as with Faynberg's cultural duality is the basis for his exploration of Vernon Reid (), and the musical-literary relationship. His goal is to liberate the others. classical concert from its formulaic connotations through an integrated presentation of artistic material. Leon will give a short demonstration of his keyboard invention, the samchillian, and then will perform a few English Suite in A minor J.S. Bach original improvisations/compositions. Prelude

French Suite in B minor ******************************************************************** Allemande Ludmilla Leibman – pianist, music theorist, and lecturer – Intermezzo in B minor op. 119 J. Brahms developed her teaching career in two countries. In Russia she taught for thirteen years in the theory/composition Sonata in D minor op. 14 S. Prokofiev department of her alma mater, the Saint Petersburg I. Allegro ma non troppo (Leningrad) Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. In the United States, after receiving her doctorate from Boston University,

she taught music theory there from 1998 to 2006. In addition, Dr. Leibman is the Executive Director of The Educational Bridge Project, an organization she founded in 1997 with the goal of providing forums for cultural exchanges between United States and Russia. The Educational Bridge Project was incorporated as a not-for- profit organization in 2006.